________________
818
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
(VOL. XIII.
ruspoot of its formation the name Udayarma may be compared to that of Javaniyarma (vol. VI above. pp. 215 and 217, with Kittel's note on the latter), and Ereyarmma (Ep. Carn. xii. Mi. 102).
This inscription has five dates: the last of them, falling in A.D. 1126, is that of the Occasion in connection with which the whole record was pat together and engraved on the stone; the others, beginning in A.D. 1123, are the dates of previous acts brought together and recited in this record, not of separate records framed and engraved successively at the times mentioned in them. They are all fally legible in the ink-impressions, except in respect of the name of the samkrānti in the second of them. Dr. Fleet gives me the following remarks about them :
"First date : line 21. The given details are : the Saka year 1045; the cyclic vear Sobhnkrit: the second tithi of the dark fortnight of Ashādha; Mangalavāra (Tuesday): the Dakshindyana or summer solstice, when the sun enters the sign Karka (Cancer) and begins his coarge towards the south. There is often a doubt as to wbether the name Sobhaktit means the samvatsara which is also known as Sobhana, or whether it denotes Subhakrit, which comes next before Sobhana. And, as this date is in any case an irregular one, we must examine it for the two years
1. The Subhakrit samvatsara was Saka 10+5 current, A.D. 1122-23. In this year the day of the given tithi Ashādha krishna 2 was Friday, 23 Fune, A.D. 1122, on which day the tithi ended at about 15 h. 35 m. after mean sunrise (for Ujjain). The sun entered Karka at 4 h. 39 m. on Monday, 26 June. Thus, neither do the tithi and the sankranti come together, nor in either case was there a Tuesday as specified in the record.
"2. The Subhakrit (Śsbhana) samvatsara was Saka 1045 expired, A.D. 1123-24. And in this year the sun entored Karka at 10 h. 51 m. on Tuesday, 28 June, A.D. 1123. But this was not at all the day of the given tithi. In this year the month Ashādha was intercalary; and the position is as follows. The tithi krishna 2 of the first Ashādha ended at mean sunrise, or perhaps at 4 minutes after mean sunrise (both for Ujjain), on Wednesday, 13 June, thirteen days before the sakrānti. And the same tithi of the second Ashidha ended at about 11 h. 46 m. on Thursday, 12 July, sixteen days after the sartkrants. The tithi which was cur. rent at the time of the sankranti was the second tithi of the bright fortnight of the second Ashdha, which began at about 1 h. 42 m. on the day mentioned above, 26 Jane. In these circumstances, I think that we may take this as the real tithi, and find an actual mistake in the record, in its giving bahula instead of śukla or suddha, attributable to the record having been framed two and a half years after the event. But, as the result does not answer exactly to all the details which are actually given, the date must be classed, as usual, as an irregular one.
"Second date: line 25. The given details are: the cyclio year Visvāvasu (the Saka year is not stated); the new-moon of Afvayaja (the weekday is not stated); a saíkrānti, or passage of the gun into a sign of the zodiac, which must be the Talā-samkrānti, when the son enters Tala (Libra) and comes to the autumn equinox, which always takes in Aśvina, though the exact name applied to it in this record is not decipherable. This date, also, is irregular. As we have seen ander the date of the inscription A above, the Vißvāvanu samvatsara was Saka 1047 expired, A.D. 1125-26. In this year the son entered Tulā at 22 h. 17 m. after mean sunrise (for Ujjain) on Saturday, 26 September, A.D. 1125. In consequence of the lateness of the time. 1 h. 43 m. before mean sunrise, any celebration of the samkrānti would be made, no doubt, during the early part of the next day, Sunday. But the new-moon tithi of Afyina only
The name used in the record was one of three syllables, the first of which is quite illegible. Of course, pishwea, the equinox,' naturally suggests itself: but the third syllable seems to be fa, and the one before it look much like pa. Use seems to have been made of some quite unusual synonym of Tuli
